Machinery for packing cigarettes and other articles.



E. L. BRAGY.

MACHINERY FOR PACKING GIGAHETTES AND OTHER ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1910.

1,041,007. Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

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Wtnenf 1; Vin (an E. L. BRAGY. MACHINERY FOR PACKING OIGAEETTES AND OTHER ARTICLES. APPLICATION FILED NOV.1,1910.

1,041,007. Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

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i I L r Q g N A E. L. BRACY. I MACHINERY FOE PACKING CIGARETTES AND OTHER ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED N0v.1,1910.

1,041,007. Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

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1,041,007. Patented 0@t.15,1912.

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E. L. BRAGY;

MACHINERY FOR PACKING UIGARETTES AND OTHER ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED 110121, 1910.

1,041,007. Patented 001. 15, 1912.

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B.L.BRA0Y MACHINERY FOR PAOKIN G GIGARETTES AND OTHER ARTICLES.

' APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1910. V

1 ,O41,007. V Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

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w fiw j E L. BRAUY. MACHINERY FOR PACKING GIGARETTBS AND OTHER ARTICLES. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1910.

1,041,007. Patented 00t.15,1912.

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'- Specification of t" f i ifI J-OM':

all:;u;lzmn--it may-concern: h Be itiknownthat I, EnwanolLs or Bnacr, @i'tiiien "-ofifthe- United States. of America, lresiding-fat. Scotland eck; North" Carolina, SeUnit-ed-States of America; have invented smivi-aiid useful Improvements-fin Machinery Zion-Packing.-cigarettes and other Articles,

-:of which the following is a; specification. Thisninventi'on relates to improvements in -machinery :forpacking-cigarettes and;

ot-hei iartit:les; of thekind for which British Letters Patent wereg'ranfed to me bearing, .dateiftlie 19th August 1907, 0. 1870;), that is machinery in whicli-ei'garettes (for; example) are introduced" into' traj's, slides, envelops dr'boxes contained-ginirecesses in a1 "horizontally intermittently rotatingi plate, j

and the said trays, slides,' enve1ops or=boxes when charged with. the cigarettes or other; ;goods,' are expelled fromsu'ch; recesses into qa'carrier-wheel' provid'ed with a number of The object of my present inventionis to provide means whereby paper or cardboard trays, covers '01 slides containing the ciga- .rettes. and which are so shaped, creased and folded as to form complete, orpartiall complete envelops' or wrappers made Milnepiece, somewhat as described'" in thefspci'fi-i cation of my aforesaid British Patentf'N'o. 18705," and shown in Figure 3- of-the' draw- -be introduced into outer covers on shells by; mechanical" means. These shaped and creased 'envelops 'oriwrappers are fed singly -61" a ent from a reel-intorecesses 'in the '-l1'6rizontal intermittently rotated plate as vdescribed in the specification of my 'afore= said British Patent- No. 18705 {and for the 'piirposeof feeding these env'elops cramp-- pe'rs containing the cigarettes or other goods into-.t-he aforesaid outer covers or shellsI em'plov the following devices :'--Instead of" the carrier-wheel marked 9' in the drawings of'my aforesaid British Specification No. 18705 provided with. radial pockets hto" Ie- 'ceive the filled and folded-envelops or wrappeis, I employ an endless "chain having' mounted upon it a number'oif pockets each adapted'to receive one of the outer cove'rs or shells'intended to receive the filled envelops hriwrappers'. This endless chain .is so {In- "ranged and operated intermittently thatft hepockets mounted upon it are broi1ght '-.one'

:foiintroducing the afiqtne other opposite tothei iteoess in the M lioi-i'gofit ah rotating plate (here nafter called a t ll ii i teale 2 Application filled November 1,"1910.-- sriai..-n.5se, ma.: .15.;

the moldwhee'l) afrom"whicli' the filled envelop or wrapper-is' to :beejected. "'Alll dj in- .order that: my present im rovements-may be --clearly understo'odI will "proceed to describe 0 the same by'th'e aid of the accompanying -di'awings' in which' 1 1 Fig.1 is a plan of a cigarette packing-ma :chine with my in'ipi ovemen'ts flap )lied thereto, but with-the cl e'vices for c'onveh ing 5 --the envelops or wrappers 1eni'oved Fig.; 2;

:bottom of that 4figL'1-re," liut witli thenvel'fop l 5 1 or wrapper conveyer in p la'ce ;'-"Fig'. 3;- an'= l'e -vation looking fromsleft-"to right -o-f"-'Fig. '&- Fig. 4 an enlarged plan "vie'wv of 'the devices 'en vel'()ps' or wrap ers into the mold-wheelgf-Figf an elevation pf F-ig; 4 partly a in "section; Fig. an enlarged plan view of the devices for feeding the =0i1tei '7 5 covers or shells into "the heforement-ioned' pockets'on the endless chain, and the packets 'Of"Ci gartfe S from the mold wheelfiinto the- 2 said outer'co'vers' or-sh'ells Fig. 7 an elevation of- Fig. '6"; Fig. is a perspective view: "of the folded shell; the dott'ed'flines"indicating the shell whenop'ened: :Fi e"; 8 an--en-' larged elevation of the devices"f0r'* feeding the 'oute'r covers or shells 'intwpositionkfor receiving the'packets of cigarettes"; Fig. 9 8 a plan view of part of Fig 8 103th n- 'larged view of "an envelop or vv'r'apperibla'nk -'Figs. 11; 12' and13 viewsdf'thesiiidbliihk in-"various stages of'foldiiigjt' Fi g. 14h view of the folded envelop oi" iviaio'pei fth'ai'ged with cigarettes) being v intr tidiled t into" the 5 outer cover or'shellf and" l*i 1-l'3the coin.

pletednaeket within its outer coverforfs heHJ Similar letters and 'nunierals o fi'e ference "relate to like parts 'all 'the' figures'io'f the dr wi g a I 5.3L -3,

ais the 'niold wheel toavhich-wpartial intermittently; r'otating rnotion is imparted in any convenient n ann'ei-i. b areft'he'm'olds' -in the said wheeh'r'cis'a' gnidewayfalonlg Which the'envelops or wranper blanirsfare fed one by, oneinto theniol'ds 72 the 'nipld wheel 'is' tasted; it is the vertically acting plunger by vrhichtlie charges of cigarettes are delivered in'to the envelops or Wrappers as they are hroiight'into positionf'f 1 e is ahorizontally'acting plunger by which I each packet of cigarettes turn contained within its envelop or ivi apper is ejected tq' molds a t ihmtihe e -pa al y folded intk)" horizontal guidewwf fio'rt'i'ts g, the construction of which will be heremafter more fully describe Referring now to the apparatus for feeding the envelo'por wrapper, blank it, which is illustrated to an enlarged scale in t and .5, the paper or cartonblanks h are stamped out to the shapeshown in Fig. 10

and may be fed into the machine one 'by one from areel 2' (see Fig. 2),'sut'.table cutting-oftand feeding mechanism being pro; vided to effect the necessary intermittent delivery of the said blanks on ta the conveyer y. I

-The blanks 1 lie .uponthe conveyer j between suitable carriers k, and are delivered by such conveycr to a pair of fr.ction rollers,

m (driven by means of gearing-mi) into the .position over a mold b as shown in plan in Fig. 4. A plunger or attached to the slide 0' then descends and forces the blank it into the mold b in such a manner that the back 72'of such blank lies at the bottom of the mold recess, itsinner side flaps 9 stand vertically therein, and the front r with its outer side flaps s extend radially inward over the top central portion of the mol'l wheel being partially folded by means of devices i and u. the operation being completed in a, manner somewhat similar to that described in the specification of my beforementioned' folded during. the :ontinued rotation of the mold wheel a by successive operations as illustrated in Figs. 10 to 13 until it reaches that point in its rotation which coincides with the guideway f when it is ejected by the horizontally acting plunger e from the mold wheel a in a partially folded condition into the guideway f thence to be introduced into the outer cover or shell 5 in the pocket on the endless chain 9 which is situated at. the.

end of the said guideway.

Referring now to Figs. 6, 7 and 7* each of the pockets on the endless chain 9 consists of a flat bottom 2, and two vertical sides 3 and 4, one of which (3) is rigidly connected to or formed with the bottom 2, and the other (4) is hinged thereto,.so that it can be turned outwardly to stand at an angle with the bottom. When the hinged side 4 of the pocket is turned up scam to stand at right angles to the bottom the cross section of the pocketcorresponds in shape and dimensions 7*, that is to say with the two sides folded down to the right or left so that the top lies close down'upon the bottom, one of the sides- 6 lying upon. the bottom 8, and the other side 7 extending in the opposite. direction below the top 9; the result being that these folded down, shells are wider, by the vdepth of one side, than the same shells when opened out to receive the filled envelops or wrappers lav-Now it is for the purpose of opening these shells from the folded form in which they are received into the machine, into the opened form (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 77'?) ready to'receive. the filled envelops or wrappers that this hinged side 4 of the pocket is-employed, and that in the following manner:'-The folded shell 5 is fed from a stack 16 or otherwise in any suitable known manner into' theocket, so. that -the lower edge of the side 6w i'ch is to form v the lowercorner 'of the shell when opened out lies in the lower-corner of the pocket at the side 3 opposite to the hinged side 4',

while the upper edge of the. side 7 of the folded shell, which is to-foi'm the upper corner of the other side of the shell when opened, comes under a flange running along the top of the hinged side 4 of the pocket. which at that time stands. in its angular position relative to the bottom of the pocket. It will now be understood that 'onturning the hinged side 4 of the pocket into its vertical position in relation to the bottom 2.

.- theshell will he unfolded or opened out by the lateral pressure'upon it of the hinged side 4 so as to-take the shape of the intek rior of the pocket, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 7, when the hinged side 4 of the pocket is closed up into the vertical position The closing up ofthis hinged side it may be efi'ected byany suitable mechanism, for example a lever arm 10 may be attached to the hinged side 4, its end being adapted to come into contact with a cam surface 01" incline 11 as the pocket approaches'the posi tion in which it is to receive the filled envelop or wrapper h'from the recess in the mold wheel a and guideway f, the subse-' quent opening of the hinged side 44 being effected by a spring, weight or otherwise.

In the'arra'ngement shownto an enlarged I scale 1n Figs. 6 and 7 of the drawings the opening of the hinged side 4 of the pocket at the proper time is insured by the weight it e-midlif ed, t wssg iy 'hrl ee side i turned into 'its' re'rt c" posnibng hd those on the upper fi, m., Pet-"t ifi esilldqhein, a e normally pen, 'o (the hinged side 4" turne'd,

. 4' I b 31 r position. The intermittent illl dt l e-lfb fjt leitipal$jbhain 9 brings each gocketfsuceessiyelyfoipposite a recess oljrnold envelop o'r ivjrzip pocket lily ii ope condition con e's opposite ce ce ii' s one ofthe latter as."

25 further;movementpt-the p ket brin s: e'r i bfifl eh s le f l into co act with the cam surface or 'ifnc'iine nnl ;tli hinged'side 4 is turned up intoj' ts rcrtlcn "position opening out the shell described, and maintaining. it intlihtcon'chtion'until'it'hrrives opposite the ''ss's h-. ..,mi d il Th usual Pe iii-g;derices'fetlien conic into operation. to slittl'ie iilled. envelop or wra per out o f the recess ZfIiL'th old-Wheel d'into the shell ;5 in I, the po 'cl'r orifthe endless"- chain 9. 5 Thenether-increment carrying the slidfiisit eii; bp ned and the shell 5 e1 i isp s eeti ebf;

V granted to-nie dated tihe 14th the 'sar'ne,-' devices such The plunger 17 has imparted to it, by suitable mechanism, an oscillating I movement- 6 5 synchronously with the other movementsot I V p p .n'hichlatter is mounted upon..-and "rotates. ie'lo'wer part ofjt'he' end- -shaftor' otherwise. bejejectedfrom thepoekfiby. t gg I et until thefil ed 'envelop'or y Y ;1'8'ZO5 of -1907', the outer shells or wrappers h" :5' tna y .bedispensed with, the fisp's of the" u [envelop or wrap ,er being gummed and 1966' No 956,;"esp.oi1lly with" ifolded'in thewell mown manner. For. this reference to Figs. bandxi o f'the drawings 4 0 of such ,allength as to 11110W-Offl183il1- Induction: of .nny known description of .g11m111ing fand folding :devices', .-.and .the

gunnn'ed "'and closed packets'on1yi=inay:be-.

be retained therein .untilthe gumzhas 'set' or;

may cons st of the pendantbzir. l9 the-endiot' -.'which'- carriesthe plunger 17. The 'bar'. 19.-is

mountedon a shaft. .and is oscillated by v the toothed sectors 21 and. 22. f The sector :22 receives motion from the. roclfingshaft28 which is actuatedby the-.arni 24,"attfthee nd oi hi'ch is! mounted the binivl;engzggin with the cam'surface-QG otthecamplatefl'i',

with, the she-1ft" 28. 'By the above described me'chenism the shell is brought into thegxpositionjshown in- Figs. 8. and9 ready-to. re.-

A ceive the completely filled L and folded e'n- I -.velop or Wrapper, which'has Ibeen:-transferret from "the .niold Z) "in. the lrnold-iuheel a (by 'the' nioyjjzment of the plunger ey-into.

' the horizontfil guideway ff wl'iere thei folding operation is completed preparatory --;to

the j envelo rf wrapper being introduced into; the outer cover or shellj5. ',The end or top 'flapf29 Oftheenvelop or- .-wrgpper. .,h.ris folded downby means oft pthe stationary "shoes 30"(Fig'sl f8 and 9)Qr-aiid'the"sides sfof the front r or; the-enirelop -or ;.wrspper; -zire folded down bv, the stat-ionaryshoes- 31. :dur

'ing the further travel., of.- the gplunge e in 1 the coui'se' 'of-- deliyery of the wrappc r-zwit h its contents between the. springffdevices'n18 inotl1eouter coyer of shell '15. 1r11ei$u 'jcessive; 'qcts' ofr' -'-folding;-.and :deliveringxnre clearly i1lustrated.,in Eig's.f 1Q toll; as:here

"inbef cre described.. A Metallic foil or tissue. maybe fed in o'i'er the store the ci'garettesa're pac ed;into.t1em,-fa1id sn'ch kfoilaor tissue papemmaybe: tak'en 'i'rom roll andcutinto suitfible lengths": byeny suitable devices. operated from the .m ain In crises where it is required to inclose. the

cigarettes entirely in an en'velopor wrapper f of the kind. for example illustrated in.F1g.'- 3- of the-drawingsof 'myi BritislfiPatenti-No, v

purpose the horizontal 'ghideway; 1'. may be" pissed into the pockets of the chain-gf an'd dried. For this purpose the chain meyi be of. greater length than, is shown-in the; .ac- C0311 s ying drawings, .and'. if desired:- may be made to pass through-:aheated or dryingtube, or other n eanslmay be'provided'yfor ed by the action of the packet. then theriiso 125- the drying or set-ting of the gum. :Each,

guideway being forced into the pocket of the chain 9. And the said ejected packet may be forced into a further guideway on the opposite side of the pocket in the chain g where its flaps may be held in place for a further period until it is finally ejected from theouter end of such guideway by the successive entrance of other packets be-' hind it. v i

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L An improved machine for packing cigarettes and other articles, which comprises, in combination, an intermittently r0- tat-ing mold-wheel provided with mold-recesses, devices for feeding the shaped, paper or carton blanks intended to form the envelops or wrappers, in a Hat condition, over the mold-recesses, a plunger for forcing a part of each blank into a mold-recess,-de

vices for deliveringthe charge of goods into thatpart of the blank which is within the mold-recess, a plunger for forcing the goods into the said part of the blank, devices for folding the top and bottom ends of the thus partly formed envelop 0r Wrapper so as to more or less completely inclose the goods within the latter, a fixed guideway provided with stationary shoes for completing the folding of the envelop or Wrapper, --a 'hori; zontally acting plunger for forcing the partly formed envelop or wrapper with; its contents out of the mold-recess into and through the said fixed guideway, and an intermittently mo'vingendless chain provided with pockets, each having a hinged side, for receiving, opening and holding the outer co ers or shells while the completely folded envelops or wrappers with their contents are being delivered from the fixed guideway into the said outer covers or shells by the horizontally acting plunger, substantially as described. e I

2. In a machine for packing clgarettes and other articles. and 1n combmatlon, an

intermittenth rotating mold-wheel a provided with mold-recesses b for receiving the envelops or wrappers andthe goods, a fixed guideway f provided'with stationary folding shoes 30 and 31 for completing the folding of the envelops or wrappers. an endless chain for receiving the outer cove'rs or shells in a collapsedgcondition and for pressing thesame into the open position for receiving the envelope or wrappers with their contents from the fixed guideway, and ashaft 20 carrying sai'd'bar '19, sector gear 21 011 said shaft, rocking shaft 23, sector gear 22 carried thereby, lever 24,. carried by said shaft 23,- cam plate 27 for operating said lever, and means for operating the cam plate, substantially? as described.

{4. In a machine for-packing cigarettes and other articles, the pockets mounted on te intermittently moving endless chain g, fo' receiving and manipulatingthe outer covers or shells, each of which pockets consists of a'bottom2, a fixed side 3 standing at right angles to the said bottom. a side 1 hinged to the said bottom and having a flange 4* for overhanging the edge of the packet, and devices for turning the said side 4 so asto open the pocket in order to receive the outer cover or shell 5,. and to close the same in order to open and hold the said outer cover or shell,substantially.;as.described.

5. In a machine for packing cigarettes and v other articles, the pockets mounted on the intermittently moving endlesschain g, each of which pockets has a side 4 hinged to the bottom and provided with a flange 4* for overhanging the packet, cam surfaces 13, 11, 14 and 15, and a lever '10 with weight 12 for turning the hinged side- 4 of the pocket into the open and closed positions, combined and arranged substantially as described. 7

In testimony whereof I have-signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDWARD LEROY BR'ACY.

Witnesses: 4 a v STEPHEN EDWARD GUNYER, :HERBERTD. JAMESON. 

